A Wake for My Youth (with Actors)

What It’s Like Watching Hollywood People Make a Movie About Your Life

by Grant Cogswell

To spend time on the set of a Hollywood movie in which your younger self is one of the central characters is the ultimate ego trip. It makes it easier to forget that a year and a half ago I was unemployed, essentially homeless, and pushing the last of my salable possessions in a shopping cart four miles across the flats of the San Fernando Valley in order to sell them for exactly seven dollars. That was shortly before I…

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